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Closing this month...Tom Howard/John H. Reid Poetry ContestPostmark Deadline: September 30
Open to poems in any style, theme or genre. $2,000 in prizes will be awarded, including a top prize of $1,000. The winning entries will be published. The entry fee is $5 for every 25 lines. Submit online or by mail. You may submit poems
that have been published or won prizes elsewhere, as long as you own the anthology and online publication rights. Unpublished work is also welcome. Winning Writers is assisting with entry handling for this contest. Guidelines:
http://www.winningwriters.com/tompoetry.htm

Unrelenting
By Joan Houlihan
Winner of the 2005
Green Rose Prize in PoetryPostmark Deadline: September 30
The Green Rose Prize is a prestigious manuscript contest from New Issues for a second book of poetry. Houlihan's characteristically compressed syntax creates poems that strain beneath the weight of unbearable truths, mortality chief among
them. Her prizewinning book Cincture will be published in 2006. Her first collection of poetry and criticism,
Hand-Held Executions, is available now.

Choir
By Jeff Hardin
Winner of the 2004
Frederick Morgan Poetry PrizePostmark Deadline: October 31
This first-book contest, formerly known as the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, offers $1,000 and publication. The effortless flow of Hardin's sonnet mirrors the theme of the poem, the glimpse of self-transcendence experienced by singers in
a chorus. "Hearing song, one wonders why we bother/ with the lie of self, its insistent claw/ for glory, ache for spark, which never calms". Hardin's prizewinning book
Fall Sanctuary is available at Amazon.

Passover
By Mary Rose O'Reilley
Winner of the 2005
Walt Whitman AwardPostmark Deadline: November 15
This is a prestigious first-book prize sponsored by the Academy of American Poets. O'Reilley's daring poem looks to nature's self-renewing cycles to redeem the memory of human atrocities such as the Holocaust. "[W]hat is terrible, even,
rises." Her prizewinning book Half Wild is forthcoming from
Louisiana State University Press in 2006.

Sponsors' Messages

Robert Frost Foundation: Ninth Annual Award - Last Call!Postmark Deadline: September 15
The Robert Frost Foundation welcomes poems in the spirit of
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The Litchfield Review Contest Postmark Deadline: October 31
The Litchfield Review (
www.thelitchfieldreview.com ) seeks original, unpublished poems, essays and short stories for its current contest. The overall winner will receive $250. Other prizes of $100 may also be awarded. The reading fee is $10 per essay, short
story, or set of 1-3 poems. All prizewinners will be published in The Litchfield Review. Runners-up may also be published. All writers we publish will receive a free copy of the issue in which they appear. We are a new journal offering a
forum to emerging and established writers; our only criterion for acceptance is excellence. We look for good stories beautifully told, quality poetry of substance, and creative nonfiction that lingers long in the minds of readers. See the
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Utmost Christian Poetry Contest - Open NowPostmark Deadline: February 28, 2006
The Utmost Christian Poetry Contest seeks poems from Christian poets. Over US$3,000 in cash prizes will be awarded in our 6th annual contest, including a first prize of US$1,000. There are many special categories, including "Best Poem by
an Unpublished Poet", which will be awarded US$200. Winning entries will be published at
www.utmostchristianwriters.com. Entry fee is US$15 per poem (Can$15 for Canadians). Entries are now being accepted. Please use the official entry form available at our web site. This is the largest annual poetry prize in North America
available exclusively to poets of Christian faith. Rules and entry form:
http://www.utmostchristianwriters.com/poetry-contest/poetry-contest.htm

Writecorner Press sponsors the $1,100 E.M. Koeppel Short Fiction Contest (open October 1 through April 30 each year), a $500 Writer's Scholarship, and $100 Editors' Choice Awards. The 2005 E.M. Koeppel Winner is Megan Somogyi, San
Francisco, for her darkly comic story Death and Popcorn. An excerpt:

Sometimes on those quiet mornings before people began filtering into the office, Percy imagined he could feel his individual cells dying, that if he listened hard enough he could hear his body decomposing. Some people, Percy knew,
realized life was short and tried to take advantage of what time they had, bungee jumping and taking pottery classes, but Percy liked the contrariness of his choice....

Read the winning Death and Popcorn, the Editors' Choice stories, and contest guidelines at
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"I wasn't on top of the contest circuit until I subscribed to Winning Writers. Since I joined the site a year ago, I have won the top prize or placed in poetry contests 24 times and have had 11 publications. In the five years I
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Open NowTom Howard/John H. Reid Short Story ContestPostmark Deadline: March 31, 2006
Now in its 14th year. Prizes of $1,000, $600 and $400 will be awarded, plus four High Distinction awards of $250 each. The top entry will be published in a triennial anthology. Other entries may also be published. Submit any type of short
story, essay or other work of prose, up to 5,000 words. You may submit work that has been published or won prizes elsewhere, as long as you own the anthology and online publication rights. $12 entry fee. Submit online or by mail. Early
submission encouraged. Winning Writers is assisting with entry handling for this contest. Guidelines:
http://www.winningwriters.com/tomstory.htm

Open NowWergle Flomp Poetry Contest - No FeeOnline Submission Deadline: April 1, 2006
Now in its 5th year. Sponsored by Winning Writers. Prizes of $1,190, $169, $60 and 5 honorable mentions of $38 each. A humor contest with a special twist. Judge: Jendi Reiter. Guidelines:
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